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TIL that 7 former U.S. Supreme Court Justices had no formal university legal education

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R5alj TIL In 1950s, Toyota made their first car called the Toyopet Crown, then they made the Corona and Corolla in the 1960s, which means "Crown" and "Little Crown" in Latin, then they made the Camry which means "Crown" in Japanese, and the car that became the foundation of Lexus is called the Crown RS.
XE7Z6 TIL that there's a lab on the International Space Station dedicated to freezing atoms to nearly Absolute Zero in order to study Bose-Einstein condensates, a fifth form of matter
loJpV TIL that using his knowledge of telephone systems, Kevin Poulsen, alias “Dark Dante,” hacked the phone lines of a radio station to become the winning caller for a brand new Porsche. He was sentenced to 5 years and banned from using computers for years. Later he reinvented himself as a journalist.
MgYV TIL that an elderly Eskimo in the 1950s, in order to escape government settlement made a knife out of his own feces and frozen spit, killed a dog with it and used its ribs and organs to make a sled, tied it to other dogs and rode off.
BgRb TIL as of 2011, the US has been a net exporter of gasoline